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name: "Walter Reisch"
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born: "23 May 1903"
died: "28 March 1983"
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# Walter Reisch

Writer. Born 23 May 1903 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Died 28 March 1983.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 23 May 1903, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- **Died:** 28 March 1983
- **Active:** 1939–1944
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 3 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 82 (1), 1940s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reisch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213811, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281556/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12362

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Gaslight*](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md) (81)

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## Biography

Walter Reisch (23 May 1903 – 28 March 1983) was an Austrian-born screenwriter and director. He began his career in Vienna as an extra, title writer and assistant before moving to Berlin, where he wrote scenarios for UFA and other studios in the late 1920s and early 1930s. After working in Vienna and London to escape the Nazis, he emigrated to Hollywood in 1937.

In the United States he wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for *Ninotchka* (1939), *That Hamilton Woman* (1941), *Gaslight* (1944), *Niagara* (1953), *Titanic* (1953) and *Journey to the Center of the Earth* (1959). He shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for *Titanic* and received further nominations for *Ninotchka*, *Comrade X* (1940) and *Gaslight*. Reisch also directed a small number of films, including *Men Are Not Gods* (1936).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmreference.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Gaslight* (1944), Fi1m 81, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)
- *Ninotchka* (1939), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/ninotchka.md)

## Complete filmography (89)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *On the Road to Hollywood* (1982), Actor
- *That's Entertainment, Part II* (1976), Thanks
- *The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen* (1966), Screenplay
- *Journey to the Center of the Earth* (1959), Screenplay
- *The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker* (1959), Writer
- *Fraulein* (1958), Producer
- *Stopover Tokyo* (1957), Producer, Screenplay
- *Einmal eine große Dame sein* (1957), Writer
- *Teenage Rebel* (1956), Screenplay
- *Der Cornet* (1955), Director
- *The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing* (1955), Screenplay
- *Casta diva* (1954), Screenplay, Story
- *The Mosquito* (1954), Director, Writer
- *Titanic* (1953), Screenplay
- *Niagara* (1953), Writer
- *The Model and the Marriage Broker* (1951), Writer
- *The Mating Season* (1951), Writer
- *The Fan* (1949), Writer
- *The Countess of Monte Cristo* (1948), Story
- *Song of Scheherazade* (1947), Director, Writer
- *Gaslight* (1944), Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)
- *The Heavenly Body* (1944), Screenplay
- *Seven Sweethearts* (1942), Screenplay
- *Somewhere I'll Find You* (1942), Adaptation
- *That Uncertain Feeling* (1941), Screenplay
- *That Hamilton Woman* (1941), Screenplay
- *Comrade X* (1940), Original Story
- *My Love Came Back* (1940), Story
- *Ninotchka* (1939), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/ninotchka.md)
- *The Great Waltz* (1938), Screenplay
- *Gateway* (1938), Story
- *Men Are Not Gods* (1936), Director, Writer
- *Silhouettes* (1936), Producer, Writer, Lyricist, Director
- *Episode* (1935), Director, Writer
- *Escapade* (1935), Screenplay, Producer
- *Casta diva* (1935), Writer
- *The Divine Spark* (1935), Writer
- *Masquerade in Vienna* (1934), Writer
- *Unfinished Symphony* (1934), Writer
- *The Countess of Monte Cristo* (1934), Story
- *Two Hearts in Waltz Time* (1934), Story
- *Lover Divine* (1933), Screenplay
- *Cairo Season* (1933), Writer
- *The Song You Gave Me* (1933), Writer
- *The Only Girl* (1933), Story
- *Moi et l'impératrice* (1933), Adaptation
- *The Only Girl* (1933), Writer
- *F.P.1 Doesn't Answer* (1932), Screenplay
- *A Blonde Dream* (1932), Writer
- *Happy Ever After* (1932), Writer
- *The Prince of Arcadia* (1932), Writer
- *The Countess of Monte Cristo* (1932), Writer
- *Love's Command* (1931), Writer
- *The Theft of the Mona Lisa* (1931), Screenplay
- *In the Employ of the Secret Service* (1931), Writer
- *The Merry Wives of Vienna* (1931), Writer
- *The Flute Concert of Sans-souci* (1930), Writer
- *The Gentleman Who Can Be Booked* (1930), Screenplay
- *Fire in the Opera House* (1930), Writer
- *The Song Is Over* (1930), Writer
- *Wie werde ich reich und glücklich?* (1930), Writer
- *A Tango for You* (1930), Writer
- *The Temporary Widow* (1930), Writer
- *Hokuspokus* (1930), Writer
- *Two Hearts in Waltz Time* (1930), Writer
- *Never Trust a Woman* (1930), Script
- *The Night Belongs to Us* (1929), Writer
- *Dich hab’ ich geliebt* (1929), Writer
- *Prisoner Number Seven* (1929), Writer
- *Der schwarze Domino* (1929), Writer
- *Der lustige Witwer* (1929), Writer
- *Die Frau, die jeder liebt, bist du!* (1929), Writer
- *Die Zirkusprinzessin* (1929), Screenplay
- *Fräulein Fähnrich* (1929), Writer
- *Der Faschingsprinz* (1928), Writer
- *Dragonerliebchen* (1928), Writer
- *Der Bettelstudent* (1927), Writer
- *Die indiskrete Frau* (1927), Writer
- *Die Dollarprinzessin und ihre sechs Freie* (1927), Writer
- *Tingel Tangel* (1927), Writer
- *The Eleven Devils* (1927), Writer
- *Ein Mädel aus dem Volke* (1927), Theatre Play
- *Das Heiratsnest* (1927), Screenplay
- *Die Beichte des Feldkuraten* (1927), Screenplay
- *Faschingszauber* (1927), Writer
- *Seine Hoheit, der Eintänzer* (1927), Writer
- *Die Pratermizzi* (1926), Writer
- *Küssen ist keine Sünd'* (1926), Writer
- *Der Fluch* (1925), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 3 nominated

- 1954: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Titanic*
- 1945: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Gaslight*
- 1941: Best Story (nominated), for *Comrade X*
- 1940: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Ninotchka*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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